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NVIDIA Suspend fix
# Use systemd for managing NVIDIA driver suspend in drivers ====>>> PRIOR to version 470 <<<=====
# https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/450.66/README/powermanagement.html
# https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/unable-to-set-nvidia-kernel-module-parameters/161306
# Please note: In Fedora Linux you may need to just install the xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power pakage
# as sugested by @goombah88 in the comments below.
TMP_PATH=/var/tmp
TMPL_PATH=/usr/share/doc/nvidia-driver-460/
echo "options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1 NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=${TMP_PATH}" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-power-management.conf
sudo install --mode 644 "${TMPL_PATH}/nvidia-suspend.service" /etc/systemd/system
sudo install --mode 644 "${TMPL_PATH}/nvidia-hibernate.service" /etc/systemd/system
sudo install --mode 644 "${TMPL_PATH}/nvidia-resume.service" /etc/systemd/system
sudo install "${TMPL_PATH}/nvidia" /lib/systemd/system-sleep
sudo install "${TMPL_PATH}/nvidia-sleep.sh" /usr/bin
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-suspend.service
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-hibernate.service
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-resume.service
@dmikushin
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This is my P500 GPU suspend error on Lenovo T580 with Linux t580 6.8.0-52-generic running Driver Version: 570.86.15:

[  570.725953] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: PM: pci_pm_suspend(): nv_pmops_suspend+0x0/0x50 [nvidia] returns -5
[  570.726746] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: PM: dpm_run_callback(): pci_pm_suspend+0x0/0x1b0 returns -5
[  570.726752] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: PM: failed to suspend async: error -5
[  573.624219] PM: Some devices failed to suspend, or early wake event detected
[  574.560997] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: PM: pci_pm_suspend(): nv_pmops_suspend+0x0/0x50 [nvidia] returns -5
[  574.561678] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: PM: dpm_run_callback(): pci_pm_suspend+0x0/0x1b0 returns -5
[  574.561684] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: PM: failed to suspend async: error -5
[  574.824971] PM: Some devices failed to suspend, or early wake event detected

@dmikushin
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This is my P500 GPU suspend error on Lenovo T580 with Linux t580 6.8.0-52-generic running Driver Version: 570.86.15:

[  570.725953] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: PM: pci_pm_suspend(): nv_pmops_suspend+0x0/0x50 [nvidia] returns -5
[  570.726746] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: PM: dpm_run_callback(): pci_pm_suspend+0x0/0x1b0 returns -5
[  570.726752] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: PM: failed to suspend async: error -5
[  573.624219] PM: Some devices failed to suspend, or early wake event detected
[  574.560997] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: PM: pci_pm_suspend(): nv_pmops_suspend+0x0/0x50 [nvidia] returns -5
[  574.561678] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: PM: dpm_run_callback(): pci_pm_suspend+0x0/0x1b0 returns -5
[  574.561684] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: PM: failed to suspend async: error -5
[  574.824971] PM: Some devices failed to suspend, or early wake event detected

This is what helped me:

sudo systemctl unmask nvidia-suspend
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-suspend
sudo systemctl unmask nvidia-resume
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-resume
sudo systemctl unmask nvidia-hibernate
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-hibernate

Crossposting on Ask Ubuntu.

@tommyyliu
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@dmikushin
Thanks, that worked for me. I have a 1080ti using driver version 570.86.15. This is on Fedora 41.

@pgbarletta
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sudo systemctl unmask nvidia-suspend
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-suspend
sudo systemctl unmask nvidia-resume
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-resume
sudo systemctl unmask nvidia-hibernate
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-hibernate

Thanks! It worked on a Lenovo P1G7 with kubuntu 24.04 and Driver Version: 570.124.06 CUDA Version: 12.8

@misterBart
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sudo systemctl unmask nvidia-suspend
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-suspend
sudo systemctl unmask nvidia-resume
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-resume
sudo systemctl unmask nvidia-hibernate
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-hibernate

Did not work for me. Using Ubuntu 24.10 and nvidia-driver-560.

As for the responses of tommyliu and pgbarletta, I am unsure whether they are helpful, because they are using driver 570, and the problem has been fixed starting from driver 565 according to ethan2009.

Also the disabling of the services and the editing of nvidia-sleep.sh suggested by bilallamal07 did not work for me.

Ubuntu 24.10 did allow me to choose the nvidia-driver-570-server, which solved the problem, probably because it contains the fix starting from driver 565.

@ahmed-aly-aut
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For me on driver 535.216.03 and GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile / Max-Q the following services where located under /usr/lib/systemd/system/:

  • nvidia-hibernate.service
  • nvidia-persistenced.service
  • nvidia-resume.service
  • nvidia-suspend.service

This meant taht I only had to enable them with

sudo systemctl enable nvidia-hibernate.service
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-persistenced.service
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-resume.service
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-suspend.service

@leber006
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This is my current setting and it's working for me (Linux Mint 22, Nvidia GeForce GTX 745 using Nvidia 550.107.02 driver)

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers-kms.conf

and add these lines into it:

options nvidia-drm fbdev=1 options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1 options nvidia NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/var/tmp

This fixed my issues!
Laptop: Lenovo p16v Gen 1
System:
Kubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, noble
AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
Nvidia rtx A500: Driver 570.133.07
Kernel: 6.11.0-24-generic

(Issue remaining: "unable to change power state from D3hot to D0")

I also tried the answer from dmikushin, but it didn't change anything!

sudo systemctl unmask nvidia-suspend
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-suspend
sudo systemctl unmask nvidia-resume
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-resume
sudo systemctl unmask nvidia-hibernate
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-hibernate

@Perkolator
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Perkolator commented May 8, 2025

As for the responses of tommyliu and pgbarletta, I am unsure whether they are helpful, because they are using driver 570, and the problem has been fixed starting from driver 565 according to ethan2009.

It's not fixed in 570 branch. People still have this problem on 570. Few days ago I upgraded from 535.183.01 to 570.133.07 and was hit with this problem for the first time. Hibernate seems to work ok though, it's sleep/suspend that gives the error/problem. EDIT: Hibernate stopped also working. Downgraded to 535.230.02 and everything works again. Nvidia still has way too many problems in linux.

@berkaykrc
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I'm losing my mind and time with this problem on

  • Fedora 42 kernel 6.14.5-300.fc42.x86_64
  • 570.144 drivers.

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